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Old 25-June-2004, 06:19 AM
Ian Goddard Ian Goddard is offline
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Default Re: Measuring time

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Originally Posted by snowflakeuniverse
Now if we assume the “perspective of God” which is outside the expansion, it is possible to describe the expansion of the balloon. This is because our god like perspective is “absolute” and is not expanding. This absolute frame of reference allows the description of the expansion of space-time.
Snowflakeuniverse, universal expansion is both internally describable and detectable by the spreading apart of mass. If both mass and space were expanding at the same rate as you suggest, then the density (mass / volume) of the universe would be the same now as it was in the first seconds after a Big Bang. However, since the Big-Bang-expansion model is a model of an extreme decrease in universal density, the logical inference is that mass and space are not expanding at the same rate. Logically speaking, by modus tollens (if P then Q; ~Q; therefore ~P):

1. If uniform expansion of mass & space, then uniform density over time.
2. There is not uniform density over time.
3. Ergo: there is not uniform expansion of mass & space.

While I may not understand your idea or all its details, this seems to be a clear falsification of both any uniform-expansion hypothesis and the claim that the Big Bang assumes an external "perspective of God" since its described fluctuations of mass/volume ratios can be locally measured.
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